All news for 2025-12-13

Ethnic Korean Dmitry Lee leveraged his NAPP role and global market connections to create a virtual monopoly in Uzbekistan’s cryptocurrency market.

An investigation by journalist Ghost In The Block alleges that projects linked to Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, are intertwined with a sprawling shadow economy involving bot farms, personal data leaks, hacker services and crypto-based scam schemes operating inside the Telegram and TON ecosystem.

Former director of «Spetstechnoexport» and a figure in corruption cases, Pavlo Barbul, is attempting to clear the public space of mentions of how he managed to «legalize» around 150 thousand dollars through a series of court decisions.

The official authorities of Kazakhstan recognize that Samruk-Kazyna, supported by ATFBank, misappropriated billions, yet the Anti-Corruption Agency and other investigative bodies have been slow to arrest Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yessimov’s father-in-law.

The Chichkanov brothers didn’t merely orchestrate a scheme to funnel money through their Kislovodsk hotel — they seem to have secured protection from the FSB.

The state energy giant Centrenergo has found itself at the center of a scandal — and wants no one to know about it.

A man accused of defrauding dozens of Ukrainians through a fake U.S. car import scheme fled Ukraine during martial law and relaunched the same operation in Moldova, raising serious questions about fraud, document forgery, and illegal border crossings.